US History Homework Sheet #2



US History Homework Sheet #2

Due Thursday, November 1st

Exam Today- Review Sheet Due

Due Friday, November 2nd

Read pages 186-187 and read pages 190-196 and answer the following questions:

1. The followers of Hamilton and Jefferson grouped together to form the nation’s first political parties- the Federalists and the Democratic- Republicans. You just read about the stands those parties took. Imagine you are each of the people below. Which party might you join? Why?

a. You are an aristocratic South Carolina plantation owner

b. You are a banker in Philadelphia

c. You are building a homestead on your farm in western Pennsylvania

1. Identify the following terms

a. Sectionalism

b. Nullification

Due Thursday, November 8th

Reread pages 190-196 answer the following questions:

1. Do you agree with the Democratic- Republicans that the Alien and Sedition Acts were a violation of the First Amendment? Were they necessary? [Discuss the following: the intent of the First Amendment and what was happening in America]

2. Should the United States have officially supported the French Revolutionaries against the British? [Discuss the following: Federalist and Republican attitudes toward France and Great Britain, the Reign of Terror, US gratitude to France for its support against Britain]

Due Friday, November 9th

Read pages 197-201 and answer the following questions:

1. For each term or name, write a few sentences explaining its significance.

a. Lewis and Clark, Aaron Burr, John Marshall, judiciary Act of 1801, Midnight judges, Sacajawea

2. How did Jefferson’s actions reflect his philosophy of government?

3. How did the Lewis and Clark expedition and the Louisiana Purchase affect the expansion of the United States?

4. Why was the US concerned about the Louisiana Territory?

5. Why was Marbury V Madison such an important case? [Discuss: Marshall’s decision and its effects on the future]

6. What was the principle of judicial review and why is it important?

Due Tuesday, November 13th

Read pages 202- 205 and answer the following questions:

1. What was Jefferson’s reasoning behind the embargo of 1807?

2. What British activities angered Americans? Explain the events that led to the War of 1812.

3. What were the provisions of the Treaty of Ghent?

4. Define: blockade, impressment, embargo, war hawk

Due Wednesday, November 14th

Read pages 212-218 and answer the following questions:

1. What helped spark the industrial revolution in the US?

2. Describe the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the United States.

3. Explain how two different economic systems developed in the North and the South. [Provide examples from the reading]

4. Summarize the American System. [Who promoted the American System? How was the American System expected to unite the nation’s economic interests? Provide several examples.]

Due Thursday, November 15th

Read pages 219-223 and answer the following questions:

1. Discuss how the federal government asserted its jurisdiction over state governments. [Refer to McCulloch V Maryland and Fletcher V Peck]

2. Explain how foreign affairs were guided by national self-interest- how did the foreign policies of John Quincy Adams and James Monroe serve national interests? Explain your answer.

3. What short and long-term goals might President Monroe have in mind when he formulated the Monroe Doctrine in 1823? Support your answer with details from the reading.

4. Why did conflict arise when Missouri requested admission into the Union? What arguments did Congress reach that are regarded collectively as the Missouri Compromise? Why were they important at the time?

5. From what you know about the Missouri Compromise and the controversy that preceded it, do you think the new spirit of nationalism in the United States was strong or fragile? Support your answer.

Due Friday, November 16th

Read pages 224- 229 and answer the following questions:

1. Write a few sentences explaining the significance of the following terms:

a. Spoils System, Indian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, Suffrage

2. Describe the tension between Adams and Jackson; describe the expansion of suffrage.

3. Explain Jackson’s spoil system and his appeal to the common citizen.

4. In your opinion, what factors set the stage for the Indian Removal Act? [Discuss the attitude of white settlers toward Native Americans, Jackson’s justification of the Indian Removal Act, why Jackson was able to defy the Supreme Court’s ruling in Worcester V. Georgia]

Due Monday, November 19th-

Groups 1 &2 will present today

Read pages 230-235 and answer the following questions:

1. Explain how the protective tariff laws raised the issue of states’ rights.

2. Summarize how Jackson destroyed the Bank of the United States (BUS). Why did Jackson oppose the National Bank?

3. What was Calhoun’s Nullification theory?

4. What were Jackson and Calhoun’s differing opinions on states rights versus federal authority?

5. How do you think Jackson might have countered his critics’ accusations that he was acting like a king? Support your answer.

Due Tuesday, November 20th

Groups 3 & 4 will present today

Start working on your review sheet

Due Wednesday, November 21st

Groups 5 & 6 will present today

Start working on your review sheet

Have a Nice Thanksgiving!!!!!!!

Due Tuesday, November 27th

Review sheet due.

Exam # 3- Exam is based on group presentations and homework that corresponds. [Pages 197-235]

Due Wednesday, November 28th

Read pages 240- 245 and:

1. Select one topic and write a detailed newspaper article discussing the emergence of reforms in the United States. [Some ideas: religious movements that swept the US after 1790, reforms in schools, mental hospitals, and prisons]

Due Thursday, November 29th

Rough Drafts due- Letters of Recommendation

Read pages 248- 253 and answer the following questions:

1. Define: abolition, emancipation, antebellum, gag rule

2. Identify some of the key abolitionists and their methods

3. What were the causes and consequences of Nat Turner’s rebellion?

4. What arguments did Southern proslavery whites employ to defend slavery?

Due Monday, December 3rd

Final Draft- Letters of Recommendations Due [Properly cited Bibliography must be included]

Read pages 254- 258 and answer the following questions:

1. Explain why women’s opportunities were limited in the mid-1800’s.

2. Identify the reform movements in which women participated.

3. What spurred the growth of the temperance movement?

4. What strides did women make in the areas of education and health care?

5. Identify: Seneca Falls Convention.

6. Why do you think that many of the people who fought for abolition also fought for women’s rights?

Due Tuesday, December 4th

Read pages 259- 265 and answer the following questions:

1. How did new manufacturing techniques shift the production of goods from home to factory?

2. Describe the conditions female employees endured in factories.

3. Do you think the positive effects of mechanizing the manufacturing process outweighed the negative effects? Why? [Discuss the following: changes in job opportunities for artisans, women and unskilled male laborers, changes in employee- employer relationships, working conditions in factories, and the cost of manufactured goods]

4. Summarize the attempts of factory workers to organize unions.

Due Wednesday, December 5th

Read pages 274- 287 and answer the following questions:

1. Describe how industrialization and capitalism impacted the US economy.

2. Identify the inventions that enhanced people’s lives and helped fuel the country’s economic growth.

3. Summarize the reasons American settlers headed west during the mid-1800’s.

4. Describe the impact of westward expansion on Native Americans.

Due Thursday, December 6th

Read pages 288- 292 and answer the following questions:

1. Explain why Mexico encouraged settlement in Texas.

2. How did Texas gain its independence?

3. Which group or country gained the most from the entry of Texas into the United States? Who lost the most? Support your answer with specific references to the section.

After School- Book Group Discussion- One Thousand White Women

Due Monday, December 10th

Read pages 304- 309 and answer the following questions

1. Discuss the reasons why many Northerners (including the immigrants in the north) were opposed to slavery.

2. Why was the South dependent on slavery?

3. Identify the economic, political and social differences between the North and the South? Based on this information do you think war was unavoidable?

4. How did the Wilmot Proviso spark tension in Congress?

5. What events led to the Compromise of 1850? Who were the key players involved? What were the major elements of this compromise?

6. Do you think the North or the South won more significant concessions in the Compromise of 1850? Explain your answer.

7. Define: popular sovereignty

Due Tuesday, December 11th

Read pages 310-317 and answer the following questions

1. Identify each of the following in one or two sentences: Fugitive Slave Act, Personal Liberty Laws, Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Kansas- Nebraska Act, John Brown, Bleeding Kansas.

2. How did the Fugitive Slave Act cause more problems between the North and the South?

3. Describe the Northern and Southern reactions to popular sovereignty. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Due Wednesday, December 12th

Read pages 248-253 and answer the following questions:

1. Complete the following chart:

|Abolitionist |Method Used to Abolish Slavery |Impact/Effectiveness |

|William Lloyd Garrison | | |

|David Walker | | |

|Frederick Douglas | | |

|Nat Turner | | |

2. Compare and contrast slavery in rural and urban areas.

3. How did slave owners justify and defend slavery?

Due Thursday, December 13th

Read pages 318-321 and answer the following questions:

1. Compare the Know-Nothing Party, Free Soil Party and the Republican Party. What were their major platforms?

2. Define: nativism

3. What role did slavery and nativism play in the 1856 election?

4. Why did the Republican Party grow as the Whig Party and Know-Nothing Parties declined in the 1850’s?

Due Friday, December 14th

Read pages 324- the top of 330 and answer the following questions:

1. Identify the facts, issue and decision in the Dred Scott case. Did this case help ignite the spark that caused the Civil War? Explain your answer.

2. What were the issues that divided Lincoln and Douglas? What was the Freeport Doctrine?

3. How did Lincoln come to be nominated for President? How did Lincoln win the election of 1860?

4. If you had been voting in the presidential election of 1860, for whom would you have voted other than Abraham Lincoln? Explain your reasoning by using specific references to the chapter.

5. Why was the South so upset by Lincoln’s election?

Due Tuesday, December 18th

Read pages 330- 333 and answer the following questions:

1. Why did South Carolina and other states secede from the Union?

2. What did Buchanan do about secession?

3. Identify: Confederacy, Jefferson Davis.

Due Thursday, December 20th

Review Sheet Due – Exam Today

Enjoy Your December Break!!!!!

Extra Credit Book: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

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